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Letters Patent No. 69,343, dated October l. 1867.

IMPROVED MOSQUITO-FRAME FOR WINDOWS.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTINE E. HORTON, of North Leominster, in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mosquito-Frames for Windows; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation,

Figure 2 a rear elevation,

Figure 3 a top view, and

Figure et a side view of one of my improved frames.

It is intended for application to a window-frame and outside of the sash or sashes thereof'.

It consists of arectangular frame, A, provided with a bar, B, extended across it at its middle. To the said bar another or smaller rectangular' frame C, to fit into the lower half or portion of the space within the frame A, is connected by two or any other suitable number of hinges D D. The space within the said frame C, as well as the upper space of the frame A, is to he covered with mosquito-netting, or other suitable woven material made with meshes, through which air can flow, but mosquitoes and flies cannot pass. The frame A may have four ears, a a a a, extended from its two opposite edges at right angles, and it may also he provided with a series of hooks, b b b Z, connected to it by staples, and arranged in manner as represented. Each of the ears may have one or more holes through it for reception of screws for fastening the ears to a window-frame. The

hooks may be employed for securing the mosquito-frame to a window-frame, in which ease the hooks are to enter staples driven into the window-frame. As these staples have to he passed in order to bring the mosquitoframe close up to the upper sash of the window-frame, I form notches l d fl d in the edges of the frame A, such as will allow the frames to pass the staples without interference therefrom.

The purpose of the auxiliary frame O is to enable a person by raising it to gain nec-ess to outside blinds of the window, either for opening or closing them, when applied to the window-frame to which the mosquitoframe may be aixed. When a mosquito-frame is either permanently aHixed or hinged to a window-frame outside of the sashes thereof, it is a preventive to a person reaching out of the window and opening or closing the blinds,l but with my mosquito-frame made with the auxiliary frame C this can be easily accomplished at any time.

The improved mosquito-frame, although intended particularly to he used outside ot' the sashes, may be placed in the window-frame and against the inner side of the sashes, but in this case it would be in the way of a person when it might be desirable to raise or lower the upper sash. It would, however, aiord a means of ready access to the lower sash. When applied to the frame, so as to he outside of the sashes, not only can either sash be operated from the room, but access through the frame may be had tothe blinds, as described.

What I claim ifs- The mosquito-shade, as composed of the main and auxiliary rectangular inosquto-netting-covered frames A C, and the cross-bar B, arranged and hinged together as specified.

AUGUSTINE E. HORTON.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

